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    Sharjah honours Libyan writer Ibrahim Al Koni as ‘Cultural Personality of the Year’

    Sharjah honours Libyan writer Ibrahim Al Koni as ‘Cultural Personality of the Year’

    18 Oct 2023

    Gulf Today, Staff Reporter The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has named Ibrahim Al Koni, the acclaimed Libyan writer and novelist, as the ‘Cultural Personality of the Year’ for the...

    Books are indispensable

    Books are indispensable

    28 Apr 2022

    Why books? Because they help us develop a vision of life, guide us and never fail us. I read my Holy Book. I stood corrected. I stood armed for life....

    One of my literary heroes was George Orwell

    One of my literary heroes was George Orwell

    27 Feb 2022

    Linda Rabben, Tribune News Service When I was a teenager, my mother told me that her father had been a philosophical anarchist who wrote articles about anarchism for a...

    Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith dies aged 88

    Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith dies aged 88

    14 Nov 2021

    Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith died at his home in South Africa on Saturday after a decades-long career in writing, his office said. He was 88. With 49 titles...

    The darker it got, the brighter they became

    The darker it got, the brighter they became

    01 Jul 2021

    When grief explodes the ordinary crouch, the extraordinary take it by the horns, and see a newness of purpose in taking on full blast the unrelenting assault. They create light...

    British spy novelist John le Carré passes away at 89

    British spy novelist John le Carré passes away at 89

    14 Dec 2020

    “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” author John le Carre, who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, has died aged 89. His agent said in...

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